Hepting et al v. AT&T Corp. et al

Filing 170

Proposed Order DENYING AT&T INC.'S MOTION TO DISMISS AMENDED COMPLAINT by Gregory Hicks, Erik Knutzen, Tash Hepting, Carolyn Jewel. (Morris, Maria) (Filed on 6/6/2006)

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Hepting et al v. AT&T Corp. et al Doc. 170 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA No. C-06-00672-VRW CLASS ACTION [PROPOSED] ORDER DENYING AT&T INC.'S MOTION TO DISMISS AMENDED COMPLAINT ) TASH HEPTING, GREGORY HICKS, 12 CAROLYN JEWEL and ERIK KNUTZEN, on ) Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly ) ) 13 Situated, ) ) 14 Plaintiffs, ) ) 15 vs. ) ) 16 AT&T CORP., et al. ) ) 17 Defendants. ) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Dockets.Justia.com 1 On April 28, 2006, defendant AT&T Inc. moved pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 2 12(b)(2) to dismiss plaintiffs' Amended Complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction. On June 23, 3 2006, the motion duly came on for hearing, the Hon. Vaughn R. Walker, United States District Chief 4 Judge, presiding. Having considered AT&T Inc.'s moving and reply papers, plaintiffs' opposition 5 papers and the oral arguments by counsel: 6 1. Plaintiffs have made a prima facie showing that AT&T Inc.'s contacts with California 7 are substantial and continuous enough to allow this Court to assert general jurisdiction over AT&T 8 Inc. 9 2. Plaintiffs have made a prima facie showing that AT&T Inc. has purposely availed 10 itself of the privileges of conducting activities in California, plaintiffs' claims arise out of or result 11 from AT&T Inc.'s California related activities, and the exercise of jurisdiction is reasonable, thus 12 allowing this Court to assert specific jurisdiction over AT&T Inc. 13 Therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that AT&T Inc.'s motion to dismiss Plaintiffs' 14 Amended Complaint be and hereby is DENIED. 15 16 DATED: _________________________ 17 18 Submitted by: 19 DATED: June 6, 2006 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 /s/ CINDY A. COHN 454 Shotwell Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Telephone: 415/436-9333 415/436-9993 (fax) [PROPOSED] ORDER DENYING AT&T INC.'S MOTION TO DISMISS AMENDED COMPLAINT - C-06-00672-VRW -1ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION CINDY COHN LEE TIEN KURT OPSAHL KEVIN S. BANKSTON CORYNNE MCSHERRY JAMES S. TYRE THE HONORABLE VAUGHN WALKER UNITED STATES CHIEF DISTRICT JUDGE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 TRABER & VOORHEES BERT VOORHEES THERESA M. TRABER 128 North Fair Oaks Avenue, Suite 204 Pasadena, CA 91103 Telephone: 626/585-9611 626/577-7079 (fax) LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP REED R. KATHREIN JEFF D. FRIEDMAN SHANA E. SCARLETT MARIA V. MORRIS 100 Pine Street, Suite 2600 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax) LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP ERIC ALAN ISAACSON 655 West Broadway, Suite 1900 San Diego, CA 92101 Telephone: 619/231-1058 619/231-7423 (fax) LAW OFFICE OF RICHARD R. WIEBE RICHARD R. WIEBE 425 California Street, Suite 2025 San Francisco, CA 94104 Telephone: 415/433-3200 415/433-6382 (fax) HELLER EHRMAN LLP ROBERT D. FRAM MICHAEL M. MARKMAN 333 Bush Street, Suite 3100 San Francisco, CA 94104-2878 Telephone: 415/772-6000 415/772-6268 (fax) Attorneys for Plaintiffs [PROPOSED] ORDER DENYING AT&T INC.'S MOTION TO DISMISS AMENDED COMPLAINT - C-06-00672-VRW -2- 1 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that on June 6, 2006, I electronically filed the foregoing with the Clerk of the 3 Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification of such filing to the e-mail addresses 4 denoted on the attached Electronic Mail Notice List, and I hereby certify that I have mailed the 5 foregoing document or paper via the United States Postal Service to the non-CM/ECF participants 6 indicated on the attached Manual Notice List. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 /s/ MARIA V. MORRIS LERACH COUGHLIN STOIA GELLER RUDMAN & ROBBINS LLP 100 Pine Street, 26th Floor San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415/288-4545 415/288-4534 (fax) E-mail:mariam@lerachlaw.com I, Maria V. Morris, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this [PROPOSED] ORDER DENYING AT&T INC'S MOTION TO DISMISS PLAINTIFFS' AMENDED COMPLAINT. In compliance with General Order 45, X.B., I hereby attest that Cindy A. Cohn has concurred in this filing. DATED: June 6, 2006 /s/ MARIA V. MORRIS W:\AT&T Privacy\ORD00031624.doc Mailing Information for a Case 3:06-cv-00672-VRW Electronic Mail Notice List The following are those who are currently on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case. L. Alger timalger@quinnemanuel.com albertvillamil@quinnemanuel.com Timothy Stuart Bankston bankston@eff.org Kevin Allan Berenson bberenson@sidley.com vshort@sidley.com Bradford J. Brosnahan jbrosnahan@mofo.com bkeaton@mofo.com James Ann Cohn cindy@eff.org wendy@eff.org;barak@eff.org Cindy Joseph Coppolino tony.coppolino@usdoj.gov Anthony A. Ericson bruce.ericson@pillsburylaw.com Bruce D Friedman JFriedman@lerachlaw.com RebeccaG@lerachlaw.com Jeff R. Himmelstein bhimmelstein@lchb.com Barry A. Isaacson erici@lerachlaw.com Eric R. Kathrein reedk@lerachlaw.com e_file_sd@lerachlaw.com;e_file_sf@lerachlaw.com Reed M. Markman mmarkman@hewm.com Michael Martinez brianmartinez@mofo.com Brian Robert McNicholas emcnicholas@sidley.com vshort@sidley.com Edward McSherry corynne@eff.org Corynne V. Morris mariam@lerachlaw.com e_file_sf@lerachlaw.com Maria Olson ko@lrolaw.com amw@lrolaw.com,slighthill@gmail.com Karl Opsahl kurt@eff.org Kurt Sharon Orleans renee.orleans@usdoj.gov Renee Eve Scarlett shanas@lerachlaw.com e_file_sd@lerachlaw.com;e_file_sf@lerachlaw.com Shana R. Sorensen jake.sorensen@pillsburylaw.com Jacob H Tannenbaum andrew.tannenbaum@usdoj.gov Andrew Lee Tien tien@eff.org aram@eff.org Tze M. Traber, Esq tmt@tvlegal.com Theresa Samuel Tyre jstyre@jstyre.com jstyre@eff.org James Van Der Hout ndca@vblaw.com Marc Voorhees bv@tvlegal.com Bert Roy Wiebe wiebe@pacbell.net Richard Manual Notice List The following is the list of attorneys who are not on the list to receive e-mail notices for this case (who therefore require manual noticing). You may wish to use your mouse to select and copy this list into your word processing program in order to create notices or labels for these recipients. David W. Carpenter Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP Bank One Plaza 10 South Dearborn Street Chicago, IL 60600 David L. Lawson Sidley Austin Brown & Wood 172 Eye Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20006

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